Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2021: Discussion and nomination
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Delta.
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antivax
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Moronic: a new variant of anti vaxer
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Motu – as used to describe the entire country rather than the correct translation of peninsula or island.
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Staffer – anyone from a CEO down who you don’t want to be associated with, post incident
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501
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NFT
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on-mute (mumbled together cause you say it so often)
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communism (mainly cause I think the meaning has “changed” for a lot of people, LOL)
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FreeDumb
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EFTPOStle
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An increase in the incidence of JAFA from mainland sources.
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vaccinated
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super-spreader
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MIQ
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Memesplaining
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Moronovirus – the disease of the anti-vaxxers
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Deb Shepherd, in reply to
And thus we can vote in a number as word of the year :-)
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Sam F, in reply to
Vaxxed!
Has to be this.
An astonishingly ugly word for something that used to be entirely uncontroversial, borrowed from the anti-vaccine sphere, embraced by “pfully pfizered” social media users and set to prompt stupid arguments online well into 2023.
Love the vaccine, ’ate the word, simple as. But it belongs at the top of the rankings nevertheless.
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For me, the word of the year was … Exile.
I’ve been stuck in limbo in Japan since March 2020 (when I was called back from NZ despite classes then going online-only for the rest of the year, no I’m not bitter at all about that…). Eventually announced my retirement last May, effective at the end of the school year, taking a punt that returning to NZ (this time, permanently) might be possible by March. And so it seems, though the timing will be dicey: it will be almost 6 months since my 2nd vaccination at that stage, but Japan is still delaying boosters until after 8 months.
[Retirement was already necessary for a number of reasons, and has already been postponed a year by Covid; *still* got barbed comments about abandoning my department.] -
Lockdown – has to be, surely
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Does NFT count as a word?
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Tom Butlin, in reply to
You’re on mute
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simon g, in reply to
Motu…as used by Dr Ashley Bloomfield and has now become fixed in the vernacular.
Yes. Always noteworthy when a word enters another language. It’s part of NZ English now.
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Insurrection
(won’t win, but I feel obliged to complain every year that the first part of the year gets ignored, and we actually do Word of Recent Months)
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